Colton Herta took the pole for Sunday's Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires race at Road America, setting a track record with a 1m52.0034s lap to best Race 1 pole-sitter Matheus Leist by 0.0223 seconds.

"What a roller coaster ride this weekend," Herta told IMS Radio. "It started out quite bad and now it's looking good. We still have a tough [first] race, we're going to have to come from the back and try and get some points, but it should be all good."

Herta, who starts 13th in today's race, missed the first practice session and had trouble in Friday qualifying.

"[The car's] amazing. It was always really good; we just had a little mechanical issue, but it's working good."

Points leader Kyle Kaiser, Zachary Claman De Melo and Santi Urrutia round out the top five for Sunday's race. The field was separated by just 1.125s.

Wisconsin native Aaron Telitz will start seventh and Nico Jamin, who trails Kaiser by 14 points in the standings, will start eighth.

Andretti Autosport's Dalton Kellett had a spin in Turn 14 during the session, matching the trouble found by Andretti IndyCar teammates Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi, but the session remained green. He'll start 12th.